ALIEN - LIKE

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The sound of objects falling to the floor were heard, books hit the ground, and the door was slam shut.

Emi sat in the corner of her room, knees up to her chest as she watched her 'mother' almost break the door with how violently she slammed it shut.

Emi let out a breath she didn't know she was holding in. Her mother just finished throwing yet another one of her crazy tantrums.

She calmed her breathing down, reassuring herself that her mother didn't hurt her this time and that she will be fine. She got up and got to cleaning, picking up the books and toys that her mother threw.

Although Emi had already turned seven, her mother never bothered to get her anything new. So therefore she was stuck with her old toddler bed, her old toys, and her old clothes that didn't even fit anymore.

The girl bent down to pick up the old bed time stories her parents got her before she was even born, organizing them on the dirty old bookshelf.

'Emi. I'm hungry.'

Said girl only rolled her eyes at the annoying voice in her head.

"You're gonna have to wait, atleast until mom falls asleep." She responded. She herself was also getting hungry, but she knew better than to go down to the kitchen while her mother was awake.

'Tater tots.'

"No."

'TATER TOTS!'

"Oh my god, shut up." Emi sighed, sitting down on the floor with a story book in hand.

'You've already read that one, it sucks ass.'

"I know it does but what other option do I have."

Venom's head suddenly emerged from her back, ripping through the shirt that she stole not too long ago.

"What the hell, Venom!" She raised her voice slightly, being careful to not yell as loud as she wanted to. She looked to her right to be met with his face.

"Sometimes I forget how ugly you are." She grumbled and opened her book.

"Bitch." He said, his head towards the bookshelf not caring if he's beefing with a seven, year old.

Eventually, he decided to fully go back into Emi's body after making an entire mess all over again.

"I hate you.." She got up from the floor and began cleaning up all over again.

After another hour of staying locked up in her room, she decided that her mother probably fell asleep by now.

"Don't try anything funny." She warned Venom before opening her door slowly. It creaked a bit but wasn't enough to be heard from downstairs.

Emi slowly made her way down, avoiding the floorboards that creaked as she walked through the hallway and down the the stairs.

There she saw her mother on the couch passed out, a half drank bottle of alcohol in her hand.

Emi ignored the harsh smell of alcohol and slowly walked walked to the kitchen. Opening the fridge, she looked for anything edible.

She was left disappointed to find the fridge empty with some rotten fruit.

'Let's go steal something.'